Word: cool
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...attention of fire-eating white supremacists and sentimental advocates of racial equality. Hysterical pity for the down trodden negro from one kind of idealist, and blind recrimination of the black race from another, are equally futile. Any constructive settlement for this problem can only come from just such cool consideration of the peculiar necessities arising from the drugging influence of recent slavery and the undeniable difference of racial capabilities between black man and white...
...Barrymore's memoirs were neither rowdy nor pornographic, but the measured attempt of an intelligent man to comment cool-mindedly upon his own career. None of the fustian sentiment, like the smell of an old stage wardrobe-none of the gasconnading, the pomposities, the how-well-I-remember-the-night that clutter most actors' reminiscences-nor yet the blatancy that distinguishes those of certain editors-were discoverable in the suave, faintly amused memories of John Barrymore...
Surely there are certain aspects of the case which might lead to this hope. For this treaty has been formulated in an atmosphere of peace--not of war, for the passions of the struggle have had six years to cool. These diplomats see peace as an economic necessity, and they are willing to sacrifice something for it. Evidently, the world is at last worried about its eternal warring, so worried as to attempt the novel in preventing war. Therefore, the person who cherishes any delight in the results of the gathering beside the waters of Lake Maggiore is not insanely...
garden-chair ? The cool of her hand makes...
...York World: "It has been a dirty campaign. That is certain. But if any one thinks that Messrs. Hearst and Hylan can be fought with a cool and dignified appeal to reason he has failed to understand their power and their methods...